Get RSS Feed through Velocity

Question

How can we display the 5 most recent items in our RSS feed in email via a Velocity email script token?

We'd prefer to utilize Velocity if possible since we're just starting to dip our toes into building content with an RSS feed and don't want to commit to a paid integration quite yet.

SanfordWhiteman · Answer

You can't fetch the feed using VTL (nor would you want to, since the feed would be the same for all leads -- horribly inefficient).

You can create a Resource Lead (a "worker lead" dedicated to certain tasks) and have that lead run a webhook once per day that fetches the RSS feed and writes it into a single, shared Velocity data token using the REST API. You'd want to transform the feed XML into a regular Velocity List/Map layout (which looks like JSON, though technically it isn't) when writing it out.

Then you can use another Velocity token to parse, filter, and output the feed contents into emails.

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